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  • AU students face court over piracy charges

    The trial of three tertiary students arrested over a music piracy ring alleged to have cost the music industry around AU$60 million has been adjourned until July 8.

  • File swappers sing the jail-bird jingle

    If you've ever used a peer-to-peer network and swapped copyrighted files, chances are pretty good you're guilty of a federal felony under US law

  • With settlement, Kazaa casts off its pirate garb

    A multimillion-dollar settlement is putting Kazaa on the straight and narrow, but it might not be enough to put the file-sharing service on the road to recovery.

  • In refugee camp, a P2P outpost

    Deep in the tense Jenin refugee camp in the Palestinian West Bank, a new file-swapping service is daring record labels and movie studios to turn their piracy-hunting into an international incident.

  • First legal blitz launched against UK music sharers

    The UK music industry is launching a broadside at file-sharers in this country for the first time - trade body the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) is suing 28 people thought to be responsible for uploading music illegally.

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  • Joe Biden's tech voting record

    US vice presidential candidate Joe Biden has a mixed record on technology, spending most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders. His anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP.

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